| Namespace | MPheno.ontology | Obsolete | false |
| description | greater than the expected number of the large cuboidal cells differentiated from fibroblasts of the dental follicle (or possibly from Hertwig’s epithelial root sheath cells by epithelial-mesenchymal transformation) that, during formation of cellular cementum, secrete a layer of unmineralized extracellular matrix called cementoid; as cementoid deposition progresses, some cementoblasts become embedded in cementoid matrix and become cementocytes |
